About Quote by Dennis Potter

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

— Elif Batuman

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or…

— Bat for Lashes

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

— Ernest Hemingway

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

— John Banville

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would…

— Nathalie Sarraute

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon